#PVR and PCI risers
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Hi Doug (and all the rest of you),
My friend got a PVR in this weekend and we got it set up. Hot stuff!
I'm going to be getting one myself, and was told by someone in the Adobe forum
to post a message regarding the PVR and PCI "risers." These risers apparently
are little connectors that you pop onto the bottom of any PCI card, and then
you pop into the PCI slot. The net effect is that the card is now seated above
the CPU or cooling fan. This would allow the PVR to be used in slots where a
heat sink, for example, would normally be in the way.
Have you or anyone heard about such a nifty little device? If so, who makes
them, and how much are they? How reliable are they?
Regards,
Nate Hayes
Sunfish Studio
Nate,
I spoke to DPS and they are assembling a kit including a riser and
new backplane bracket, they'll ship it to you directly.
Also they have new breakout cables with longer extensions in case yours
like mine are taking a beating for lack of strain relief.
Now all we need is some way to hold up the front end of the cards
with the capture card on the PVR on the PCI riser all hanging off
one PCI slot it's quite a flimsy arrangment in a tower case.
Peter Knowles
Cornerstone Studios
Pete…
I've got this in my soon to be posted Q/A document, but the part number for the
riser is #804-997. It's a PCI slot extender, and one DPS dealer that I know of
(AmiWare in Canada) has them, or you can supposedly order them from DPS. You
might even find it in a JDR catalog.
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Nate…
The biggest question I have (and I'm sure many others as well) is which video
card are you using with the PVR and which motherboard?
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